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John Scalzi
“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”
John Scalzi, Old Man's War

George R.R. Martin
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things—whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous.”
George R. R. Martin

George R.R. Martin
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Neil Gaiman
“Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)”
Neil Gaiman

George R.R. Martin
“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
George R.R. Martin

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Colleen
1,112 books | 54 friends

Megen M...
984 books | 35 friends

Andrea
98 books | 35 friends

Bella
76 books | 11 friends

Katheri...
1,601 books | 252 friends

Jessica...
1,532 books | 144 friends

Amber
171 books | 50 friends

John Ph...
458 books | 69 friends

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